The Patent Record, Person by Person — Five Inventors Seated Here

USPTO / Google Patents record worked by inventor residence, "New Carlisle, Indiana" — the first patent record ever worked for this ground; as of November 2026

Lead: The record does seat inventors here — five of them, at residence grade, each from the face of his own patent. (1) William E. Rose, of New Carlisle, Indiana: U.S. Patent 518,118, a sign-printer — a hand-rolled wheel carrying segmental type blocks, for printing with paint on fences, sidewalks, bridges, boxes and show cards — application filed June 2, 1893, patented April 10, 1894, one-half assigned on the face of the patent to Schuyler C. Hicks, of the same place. (2) Chester E. Unger, New Carlisle, Indiana: U.S. Patent 2,689,677, an ampoule filling and sealing machine, filed August 14, 1950, patented September 21, 1954, assigned to Eli Lilly and Company — see the medicine article in this section. (3) Emil C. Evancich, New Carlisle, Indiana, with Herbert O. Leipold of South Bend: U.S. Patent 2,915,615, an electric heating unit with control thermostat — a tape-carried resistance heating strip for wrapping exposed liquid conduits — filed September 9, 1957, patented December 1, 1959, assigned to Welcraft Products Co., Inc., of New Carlisle itself, the one case in this record where inventor, residence and assignee company all sit in the town. (4) Jerome D. Huener, 33863 Early Road, New Carlisle, Indiana 46552: a diagnostic method and apparatus for a domestic appliance, for Whirlpool Corporation, published as European application EP 0 619 568 A1, filed March 30, 1994 on a U.S. priority of April 5, 1993 — printed at European-publication strength; the U.S. grant number was not recovered at this seat. (5) Daniel A. Heuer, New Carlisle, Indiana 46552, with Shannon Edwards of LaPorte: a pressure transmitter with Hall effect sensor, for Dwyer Instruments, Inc. of Michigan City — a transducer using a Hall effect sensor to read diaphragm displacement on a 4-to-20 mA loop — published as European application EP 1 560 013 A2, filed February 2, 2005, published August 3, 2005, on a U.S. provisional priority of February 2, 2004 — likewise printed at European-publication strength, U.S. number not recovered at this seat. Strength note, printed honestly: this list is what the reachable Google Patents and European Patent Office record returns for this residence; a complete USPTO full-text sweep by inventor residence could add names, and that sweep is the settler named in the closures for this row. No patent on this list is invented, and no name is listed without its residence on the document itself.

Sources:

1. Google Patents — US518118A, William E. Rose of New Carlisle, Indiana, sign-printer, patented April 10, 1894, https://patents.google.com/patent/US518118A/en
2. Google Patents — US2689677A, Chester E. Unger, New Carlisle, Ind., ampoule filling and sealing machine, patented September 21, 1954, https://patents.google.com/patent/US2689677A/en
3. Google Patents — US2915615A, Herbert O. Leipold and Emil C. Evancich, New Carlisle, Ind., electric heating unit with control thermostat, patented December 1, 1959, https://patents.google.com/patent/US2915615A/en
4. European Patent Office — EP 0 619 568 A1, inventor Jerome D. Huener, New Carlisle, Indiana 46552, Whirlpool Corporation, diagnostic method and apparatus for a domestic appliance, https://data.epo.org/publication-server/rest/v1.2/patents/EP0619568NWA1/document.pdf
5. European Patent Office — EP 1 560 013 A2, inventor Daniel A. Heuer, New Carlisle, Indiana 46552, Dwyer Instruments, Inc., pressure transmitter with hall effect sensor, https://data.epo.org/publication-server/rest/v1.2/patents/EP1560013NWA2/document.html